Understanding the processes determining community structure is one of the major goals of ecological research. Both deterministic and stochastic processes may shape community structure. The challenge ...

Microbiologists have developed a mathematical framework for quantitatively assessing ecological diversity in an ecological community whether deterministic or stochastic. A recent study examines the ...

Ecological communities are structured by both deterministic, niche-based processes and stochastic processes such as dispersal. A pressing issue in ecology is to determine when and for which organisms ...

Prof. George Wells, Assistant Professor in Environmental Engineering, and his research group have collaborated on a recent publication in Nature Microbiology. The article, titled “Global diversity and ...